General elections were held in

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on 3 February 2008.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1357 The Union for Monaco was re-elected, though with a reduced margin of victory.

Electoral system

Voters can either choose a party list or choose candidates from various lists ("

panachage Panachage (, from French meaning "blend, mixture") is a mixed single vote variant of list proportional representation. In panachage, voters support individual candidates (rather than parties). Voters have multiple votes, which they can split betw ...

") for the 24 seats. The 16 candidates with the most votes are elected (with the older candidate breaking possible ties in votes). The eight other seats are chosen from lists in accordance with the

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system for parties that have at least five percent of votes.

Results

By candidate

References

Elections in Monaco

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